PSG ordered to pay Mbappé €60 million | OneFootball

A Paris labour tribunal on Tuesday instructed Paris Saint-Germain to pay Kylian Mbappe 60 million euros ($70.6 million) in outstanding wages and bonuses, bringing a partial resolution to one of French football’s most bitter legal battles.

The decision came after months of courtroom proceedings sparked by the France forward’s claim that PSG withheld payments for April, May and June 2024, shortly before his departure from the Ligue 1 champions to join Real Madrid on a free transfer.

"We are satisfied with the ruling. This is what you could expect when salaries went unpaid," Mbappe’s lawyer Frederique Cassereau told reporters.

The court ruled that PSG had failed to settle three months of Mbappe’s salary, along with an ethics bonus and a signing-on payment stipulated in his contract.

Those amounts had already been confirmed as payable in two rulings by the French Professional Football League (LFP) in September and October 2024, with judges noting that PSG failed to present any written evidence that Mbappe had agreed to relinquish those sums.

While the panel dismissed PSG’s position that Mbappe should lose his unpaid earnings altogether, it also rejected several of the forward’s additional complaints, including claims of hidden employment, moral harassment and a breach of the club’s duty of care.

The court further ruled that Mbappe’s fixed-term deal could not be treated as a permanent contract, a finding that reduced the level of compensation available for dismissal and notice-related claims.

PSG had contended that Mbappe acted in bad faith by withholding his intention not to extend his contract for almost a year, depriving the club of the chance to secure a transfer fee comparable to the 180 million euros they paid AS Monaco to sign him in 2017. Mbappe’s legal team argued that the case centred on the enforcement of French labour law and unpaid compensation, rather than transfer strategy.